Carlos Yulo. PHOTO AFP
World champion gymnast Carlos Edriel Yulo, hurdler Eric Shawn Cray and tennis player Alex Eala will perform the largest number of field visits for Team Philippines on Tuesday at the Games. 31st Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam.
They will be accompanied by a large wave of athletes, coaches and officials from 10 sports where twin sprinters Kyla and Kayla Richardson, track athletes Samantha Kyle Catantan and The famous local women’s national volleyball team has been registered.
“We stand ready to take on our athletes and coaches and extend the support they need when they arrive here,” said Commissioner Ramon Fernandez of the Philippine Sports Commission.
A total of 193 athletes, coaches and officials, including members of the media, will arrive in the Vietnamese capital on the same day as PSC staff and the national team secretariat to meet create favorable conditions for them.
“They have to be free of distractions so they can focus on their respective competitions ahead,” added Fernandez, the country’s head chef at the Olympics.
Yulo has won two golds and five silvers, making him the Filipino with the most important medal title back to the 2019 SEA Games in Manila. Joining Yulo are Japanese trainer Munehiro Kugimiya and therapist Junpei Konno.
Filipino-American Cray defended her 400m hurdles title and set a SEAG record in the event in four previous biennial meetings since 2013 Myanmar while 16-year-old Eala came out. eyes of the national team in the Olympics, is the No. 2 junior tennis player in the world.
Volleyball celebrities Alyssa Valdez, captains Aby Marano and Jaja Santiago were mainstays of the PH women’s players alongside outsiders Jema Galanza, Ces Molina, opposite players Kat Tolentino, Mylene Paat and the others. Playmakers Kyle Negrito and Iris Tolenada.
Make the team doubly formidable in their post-campus medal quest in Brazil with coach Jorge Edson Souza de Brito as midfield midfielders between Ria Meneses, Dell Palomata, Majoy Baron and liberos Kath Arado and Dawn Macandili.
SEAG multi-medal winning table tennis player Richard Gonzales and 2018 table tennis player Jann Mari Nayre will join them along with tennis players Jeson Patrombon, Francis Casey Alcantara, Treat Huey and wushu’s Agatha Wong , Daniel Parantac and Divine Wally.
Women’s volleyball and men’s volleyball have a total of 38 players and staff, while gymnastics has 22 athletes and coaches.
Majority of athletes and officials from badminton (19), bodybuilding (13), fencing (28), table tennis (17), tennis (12), athletics (8) and wushu (17) will also depart from Manila two days earlier to attend the opening ceremony on Thursday with the PSC medical team (6) and members of the media (12).
Athletes from rowing, chess, kurash, pencak silat, men’s 3×3 basketball, women’s basketball, golf and triathlon/duathlon arrived at the weekend after entries from kickboxing, handball, ball Men’s and Women’s kicks have ended.
The majority of athletes and officials (50 people) will be here on Wednesday, including Asian pole vault record holder Ernest John Obiena. Joining them are Filipino entries from esports (25), billiards (10), bowling (13), cycling (16), golf (2), jujitsu (9) and swimming (3).
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